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• [T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than is the theory of production and distribution of a given output produced under the conditions of free competition and a large measure of laissez-faire.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Book, Competition, Liberty

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Preface to the German Edition, February, 1936.

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• For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wisdom, Believe, Income

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.342, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wisdom, Important, Politics

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.346, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Ideas, Ties, Errors

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I should have drunk more Champagne.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Should Have, Drunk, Champagne

  "Ben Trovato's Art of Survival". Book by Ben Trovato, p. 196, 2007.

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• The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth -- he could at the same time and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprise of any quarter of the world -- he could secure forthwith, if he wished, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Morning, Peace

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• The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Bankers, Mercy, Old Saying

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• God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mets, Train

  John Maynard Keynes, after meeting with Wittgenstein at his arrival in Cambridge, in a letter to his wife Lydia Lopokova, January 18, 1929.

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• He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

  John Maynard Keynes

  France, Illusion, Economics

  The Economic Consequences of the Peace ch. 3 (1919)

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• Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Science, Age, Lasts

  John Maynard Keynes (2015). “The Essential Keynes”, p.516, Penguin UK

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• Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Long, Suffering

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.127, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

  John Maynard Keynes

  President, Odysseus, Wiser

  'The Economic Consequences of the Peace' (1919) ch. 3 (on Woodrow Wilson)

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• I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Trying, Shapes, Position

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: The general theory and after: pt. 1, Preparation”

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• I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Humble, Heaven, Vastness

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography”

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• In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Writing, Autumn, Fortune

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The Economist”, p.154, 北戴河出版

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• I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Numbers, Telephones, Remember

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